After reading Za Za Scents children’s books….
Engage your little ones with exciting STEM activities that illustrate the connection between smell and memory.
Scent Memory Game
Gather an even number of containers (suggestion - 6 jars).
Fill sets of two with the same olfactive ingredient like: coffee beans, orange slices, pickles, etc.
Put on a blindfold.
Mix up the jars.
Find scent matches.
Ultimate Taste Tester
Want to try an experiment on an adult?
Get a peeled onion and an apple.
Cover the adult’s eyes and ask them to pinch their nose.
Have them take a bite of the onion. Then, let them taste the apple.
What do they smell? What do they taste?
Now, you try!
Synesthesia Scavenger Hunt
With a friend and an adult’s permission:
Gather six fragrant items from your home or nature.
Smell each item and note a color that comes to mind.
Compare answers and see if certain scents remind you of loved ones.
How do your favorite fragrances compare to scents in nature?
Compare the fragrance ingredients of your favorite soap, shampoo, or perfume to those found in nature.
For example, visit a fragrance counter with an adult to safely try some scents. Pick out a few favorites.
Ask about the ingredients in the fragrances. Look for those found in nature, like pear, rose, or basil.
Do the natural ingredients smell like your fragrance? If not, what are the differences?
Jam Smell or Taste Test
Collect different flavored jams (e.g., apricot, blueberry, grape, strawberry).
Smell Test: Can you smell anything when sniffing the different varieties? If so, without tasting the jam describe the differences you smell in each flavor.
Taste Test: Close your eyes or wear a blindfold while tasting each jam. Talk about or write down the different tastes you notice. Take a sip of water between each sample. After tasting, what differences do you see among the jams? What are the similarities?
Taste Test Sampler
Gather mini cups, muffin baking pan or an ice cube tray for sampling of flavors. Try including different flavor profiles (salty, sour, sweet, spicy, bitter)
You can have an open discussion about different taste profiles. Or, you can use a blindfold to identify certain flavors or foods.
Food suggestions:
Salty: Chips, pretzels, popcorn
Sour: Lemon, lime, vinegar chips
Sweet: Chocolate chips, marshmallows, syrup
Spicy: Salsa, gumdrops, mint candy
Bitter: Baking chocolate, grapefruit, ginger
Free-Bee Fun
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““Smell was the very first sense to evolve and is located in the same part of the brain that processes emotion, memory, and motivation.””
